Airport Weeze

Infobox Airport
name = Airport Weeze/Dusseldorf
nativename = Flughafen Weeze/Niederrhein
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IATA = NRN
ICAO = EDLV
type = Public
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operator = Flughafen Niederrhein GmbH
city-served = Weeze
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elevation-f = 106
elevation-m = 32
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r1-number = 09/27
r1-length-f = 8,005
r1-length-m = 2,440
r1-surface = Concrete/Asphalt
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Airport Weeze or Niederrhein Airport airport codes|NRN|EDLV is an airport situated in the small municipality of Weeze in the "Niederrhein" (Lower Rhineland) of western Germany. It is about convert|30|km|mi|0|lk=on southeast of Nijmegen, Netherlands and convert|50|km|mi|0|abbr=on northwest of Düsseldorf. It stands on the site of the former military airbase RAF Laarbruch, and began operations as a civil airport in 2003.

Weeze Airport is used only by low-cost carriers, mainly Ryanair. Its IATA-Code is "“NRN”" because of its former name "Flughafen Niederrhein".

The airport has undergone several name changes. The operators originally wanted to name it after the city of Düsseldorf, but the significant distance to that city, which already had three closer international airports (Düsseldorf International, Düsseldorf-Mönchengladbach and Cologne/Bonn), resulted in the name being blocked by a court ruling that it was likely to mislead passengers. However, airlines which use the airport, particularly Ryanair, still refer to it as 'Düsseldorf (Weeze)'.

The airport actually serves better the closer Dutch towns of Venlo, Nijmegen and Eindhoven, the German city of Duisburg and the immediate Weeze area; there is no direct public transport to Düsseldorf.

Airlines and destinations

*Corendon Airlines (Antalya)
*Hamburg International (Gran Canaria (begins winter 2008), Hurghada, (begins winter 2008) Lanzarote (begins winter 2008), Palma de Mallorca, Sharm El-Sheikh (begins winter 2008))
*Ryanair (Alghero, Alicante, Ancona [begins 27 October] , Balaton, Birmingham [begins 27 October] , Bydgoszcz, Dublin [begins 27 October] , Edinburgh, Fuerteventura, Girona, Glasgow-Prestwick, Gothenborg City [begins 27 October] , London-Stansted, Málaga, Manchester [begins 27 October] , Marrakech, Milan-Bergamo, Oslo-Torp (begins 27 October), Palma de Mallorca, Riga [begins 27 October] , Rome-Ciampino, Santander [begins 27 October] , Seville, Shannon, Stockholm-Skavsta, Tenerife-South [begins 27 October] , Trapani, Växjö, Valencia, Venice-Treviso, Wroclaw)
*Sky Airlines (Antalya)
*SunExpress (Antalya (begins winter 2008))
*Transavia (Gran Canaria (begins November 2008))
*Welcome Air (Innsbruck (begins December 2008))

Cargo airlines

*SkyWings Cargo Airlines (Coventry)

External links

* [http://www.airport-weeze.de/index.php?lang=en Official website] (In English, German and Dutch)
* [http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?placesearch=Weeze%20%28Dusseldorf%20-%20Regional%20%2F%20Niederrhein%20%2F%20Laarbruch%29%20%28NRN%20%2F%20LRC%20%2F%20EDLV%29&distinct_entry=true Photos taken at Weeze Airport]
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